Westcoast Pre-med programs

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I couldn't find a focused list of westcoast colleges and their strengths for pre-med programs? It seems all mixed up in all other posts w/other national lists. So how about we start one focused only on westcoast ?</p>

<p>To make it easy, please put some structure in your responses as suggested below. Again this is a suggestion, so feel free to add/remove/modify/ignore !</p>

<p>A> recognition by top tier med schools across country ?<br>
B> quality of pre-med advising ?
C> choice of majors ? flexible, open program or lmited ?
D> access to research, volunteering opportunities? plenty or limited ?
E> difficulty of maintaining pre-med GPA ? (it seems grade de/inflation seems a hot topic –is it super hard or only moderately difficult ? )
F> attrition rate for pre-meds ? (student dropping out of pre-med) - high or low ?
G> percent of Pre-med applicants selected to Medschools (controversial, but nevertheless useful. If possible indicate details- numbers of recent graduating class, av.MCATs/GPAs, where they went etc)
H> merit-aid, scholarship offers (full rides, half-tuition etc) for qualified ?
I> accelerate/ dual-degree programs etc ?
J> other generic factors (school size, location, social life etc) ?</p>

<p>Let me start with a list of colleges (random order) I am looking to get feedback .. feel free to add others </p>

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C> choice of majors ? flexible, open program or lmited ? *</p>

<p>I can’t imagine that any limit your major choice.</p>

<p>What state are you in?</p>

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<p>B> UC’s generally have extremely poor advising.</p>

<p>G > Not just controversial, but worthless.</p>

<p>I>Dual degree in what? (Most colleges allow double majors…) And ‘acceleration’, i.e., graduating early is generally not a plus factor and can be the opposite unless one takes the extra year to do other stuff to strengthen the app.</p>

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<p>H–Stanford doesn’t give merit aid. The UCs give little to no merit, esp to OOS.</p>

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<p>UCSF is not for undergraduates</p>